

Imagine if those wars could have been fought and won so easily. Compare the sacrifice and suffering di Canzio describes (or that of Antietam) to the sacrifice involved in getting two shots of vaccine. How little most of us know of World War I. That makes reading it perhaps even more compelling than reading Maurice, if you have time for just one.

Īlec adds years to the story, up through and beyond World War I. But for the longest time they were - and in much of Africa, the Muslim world, Russia/Chechnya/Belarus and red-state America still are. Alec William Di Canzio What The Reviewers Say Positive Manuel Betancourt, The New York Times Book Review Once di Canzio pushes past his borrowed characters’ figural greenwood, his goal in reanimating them becomes clearer. Forster’s landmark novel ’Maurice’ was inspired by the classic love story of upper-class stockbroker Maurice Hall, this time from the perspective of his love, working-class gameskeeper Alec Scudder. It’s hard to imagine that things were ever such. William di Canzio’s gay adaptation of E.M. When I finished, I could not fail to go back and read Maurice. What got me to read it was Alec, a novel written by William di Canzio a century later that tells the exact same story - but from the young game keeper’s point of view. Forster‘s famous pre-World War I novel about the love that dared not speak its name (published only after his death, in 1971).

Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in. Forster’s secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the story of Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper Maurice Hall falls in love with in Forster’s classic, published only after the author's death. I had actually never read Maurice (pronounced: MORE-iss), E.M. William di Canzios Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. William di Canzio’s Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. Al Franken on how being a Nazi in America was less acceptable in the Fifties.
